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Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast.

Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought.

In this episode, we ask, "What to learn, for both dog and person?"

Courses:
Self-directed, online with unlimited lifetime access.

Build the Learning
As learning engineers we design access to rewards that shape the learning with guidance and suggestion. We cannot do the learning for our dogs, we can simply set up the situation that they learn from.

Management or Training
Find your pathway to suit your lifestyle of living with dogs. When you need management to temporarily support the learning, or choose training.
Discover the power of passive learning and invest your energy to the active learning.

Reward Skills Course
Learn about the fascinating landscape of rewards and make them the centre of training and relationship.
Explore the different and diverse ways we can deliver rewards to bring excitement or relaxation, curiosity or confidence.

Sue McGuire offers a limited number of consultations and courses for small groups humane/canine learners. Contact her through Sue McGuire Teaches Dogs. 

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Learning.  Is it a construct? An idea?

We cannot do the learning for the dogs, we can only set up situations where learning happens.

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaching Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast.

Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought.

In this episode, we ask, "What is learning?"

Courses:
Self-directed, online with unlimited lifetime access.

Build the Learning
As learning engineers we design access to rewards that shape the learning with guidance and suggestion. We cannot do the learning for our dogs, we can simply set up the situation that they learn from.

Management or Training
Find your pathway to suit your lifestyle of living with dogs. When you need management to temporarily support the learning, or choose training.
Discover the power of passive learning and invest your energy to the active learning.

Reward Skills Course
Learn about the fascinating landscape of rewards and make them the centre of training and relationship.
Explore the different and diverse ways we can deliver rewards to bring excitement or relaxation, curiosity or confidence.

Sue McGuire offers a limited number of consultations and courses for small groups human/canine learners. Contact her through Sue McGuire Teaching Dogs.

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It's time to flip another concept on its head--the whole idea that the dog MUST pay attention when you say their name before you start training.

Nagging? Or would you rather consider reward approach a better plan?

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaching Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast.

Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought.

In this episode, we ask, "Why turn your dog's name into meaningless, white noise?"

Courses:
Self-directed, online with unlimited lifetime access.

Build the Learning
As learning engineers we design access to rewards that shape the learning with guidance and suggestion. We cannot do the learning for our dogs, we can simply set up the situation that they learn from.

Management or Training
Find your pathway to suit your lifestyle of living with dogs. When you need management to temporarily support the learning, or choose training.
Discover the power of passive learning and invest your energy to the active learning.

Reward Skills Course
Learn about the fascinating landscape of rewards and make them the centre of training and relationship.
Explore the different and diverse ways we can deliver rewards to bring excitement or relaxation, curiosity or confidence.

Sue McGuire offers a limited number of consultations and courses for small groups human/canine learners. Contact her through Sue McGuire Teaching Dogs.

Send a text

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Plays with Dogs, join forces for the fourth season of the hugely successful, Learning About Dogs podcast.

Season four features short, one subject podcast no longer than 10 minutes. Although try as we might, we are shooting for not much over five minutes. But one salient thought.

In this episode, we ask, "What is this obsession over the term-proofing?"

Courses:
Self-directed, online with unlimited lifetime access.

Build the Learning
As learning engineers we design access to rewards that shape the learning with guidance and suggestion. We cannot do the learning for our dogs, we can simply set up the situation that they learn from.

Management or Training
Find your pathway to suit your lifestyle of living with dogs. When you need management to temporarily support the learning, or choose training.
Discover the power of passive learning and invest your energy to the active learning.

Reward Skills Course
Learn about the fascinating landscape of rewards and make them the centre of training and relationship.
Explore the different and diverse ways we can deliver rewards to bring excitement or relaxation, curiosity or confidence.

Sue McGuire offers a limited number of consultations and courses for small groups humane/canine learners. Contact her through Plays with Dogs.

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The Learning About Dogs podcast is your main source for all these dogs, teaching dogs, understanding dogs, and living with dogs.

Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and Sue McGuire of Sue McGuire Teaching Dogs, join together to continue the promotion of teaching that which benefits dogs. But how and when, methods, concepts and plans to teach dogs and guide their learning, is what these podcasts are all about.

Season 4 introduces the concept of one thought per podcast. Short and to the point. One idea to digest. One thing to change or think about it in this wonderful relationship with these bright learning creatures.

Courses:
Self-directed, online with unlimited lifetime access.

Build the Learning
As learning engineers we design access to rewards that shape the learning with guidance and suggestion. We cannot do the learning for our dogs, we can simply set up the situation that they learn from.

Management or Training
Find your pathway to suit your lifestyle of living with dogs. When you need management to temporarily support the learning, or choose training.
Discover the power of passive learning and invest your energy to the active learning.

Reward Skills Course
Learn about the fascinating landscape of rewards and make them the centre of training and relationship.
Explore the different and diverse ways we can deliver rewards to bring excitement or relaxation, curiosity or confidence.

Sue McGuire offers a limited number of consultations and courses for small groups human/canine learners. Contact her through Sue McGuire Teaching Dogs.

Send a text

Markers are an integral part of the communication process when we are interacting with our learners.

Whether you choose to use a clicker or not, the whole process behind "marker training" needs a close examination. Hanging your training psyche on the use of a clicker may not be the best use of your time. Especially if you are just starting out.

On this, the final episode of Season 3 of the  Learning about Dogs podcast, Kay Laurence and Sue McGuire challenge the use of a single tool to impart such important information.

Learning about Dogs

Article: Shaping by Rewards

Reward Skills Course
The more we explore and blend the theory, biology and application it is clear that this is not a simple process, it is complex and very sophisticated. With active minds open to learning we can continue to understand more, apply in an educated format and improve the combination of learning and dogs that we know and love and call training.

Online classes with Sue McGuire

Basic Training and Manners starts Thursday October 15th @ 6:45 PDT
Intermediate Training starts Thursday, October 15th @ 5:30pm PDT

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Do we want habits or active learning?

Probably both but there is a clear distinction between them which is dependent on the value of the reward, to the dog of course.

On this episode of podcast, Kay Laurence of Learning About Dogs and TAKL graduate and host Sue McGuire talk about the advantages and drawbacks of teaching behaviors to the habit  level and when do you want active learning.

Season 3 of the "Learning about Dogs" podcast is about rewards and reward skill.

Article: Shaping by Rewards

Reward Skills Course
The more we explore and blend the theory, biology and application it is clear that this is not a simple process, it is complex and very sophisticated. With active minds open to learning we can continue to understand more, apply in an educated format and improve the combination of learning and dogs that we know and love and call training.

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On this episode of the podcast, we do a little introduction of  a new term that is so much BIGGER than a cue. What are cues anyway?

Sue McGuire  and Kay Laurence of "Learning About Dogs,"  introduce you to our new friend--REWARD PREDICTING STIMULUS.

Season 3 of the "Learning about Dogs" podcast is about rewards and reward skill.

Article: Shaping by Rewards

Reward Skills Course
The more we explore and blend the theory, biology and application it is clear that this is not a simple process, it is complex and very sophisticated. With active minds open to learning we can continue to understand more, apply in an educated format and improve the combination of learning and dogs that we know and love and call training.

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What is the point of learning?

"When that brand new brain gets into motion it is going to have to find out how to secure the rewards needed for life, and once that is achieved set about finding the very best rewards, and lots of them. On a daily, minute by minute basis."

In this episode of the "Learning About Dogs," Sue McGuire  and Kay Laurence of "Learning About Dogs,"  talk about how the mind-blowing experience of having a  peak of the season peach from California cemented understanding of REWARD PREDICTION ERROR.

Season 3 of the "Learning about Dogs" podcast is about rewards and reward skill.

Article: Normal is Always Changing

Reward Skills Course
The more we explore and blend the theory, biology and application it is clear that this is not a simple process, it is complex and very sophisticated. With active minds open to learning we can continue to understand more, apply in an educated format and improve the combination of learning and dogs that we know and love and call training.

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In the early days of using positive reinforcement and clicker training, the delivery of that reinforcer, (reward), was not part of the consideration. The format of the research experiments favoured a mechanical magazine to deliberately remove any variables that human delivery would include.

When people become the mechanism of delivery we have to consider the variable elements that effect of the reinforcer, or reward. Sadly “mechanical delivery” and the mechanical skills are still seen as desirable elements of training and a whole series of additional valued- rewards are being ignored and lost.

Season 3 of the "Learning about Dogs" podcast is about rewards and reward skills.

Kay Laurence of "Learning About Dogs," and Sue McGuire, host/producer, are calling this our "A Season of Rewards," because that is exactly what we are diving into this year.

On this episode, we look at reward delivery patterns and the source of rewards. You will never look at a treat pouch on a hip the same way again.

Article: Release Cue or Stay Cue? Pick a Path

Reward Skills Course
The more we explore and blend the theory, biology and application it is clear that this is not a simple process, it is complex and very sophisticated. With active minds open to learning we can continue to understand more, apply in an educated format and improve the combination of learning and dogs that we know and love and call training.

Online Learning on Basic Skills with Sue McGuire
Starts August 22, 2020
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